{Discontinued} "Valentine's Day" | Yandere Shuichi Saihara x Reader | Rewrite

Chapter 4

"Mmm... huh...?" Your eyes shot open as fear and adrenaline immediately pumped through your system when you didn't recognize the place you'd woke up in right away. However, a couple seconds later you reminded yourself that you were just in your dorm and it was the day after moving day, causing relief to flood through your system at the fact it was a false alarm, "Hah... I shouldn't scare myself like that..."

Looking over to the side, you saw that Shuichi's bed was empty and he was nowhere to be found, so you figured that he'd already woken up and gone off on his own, "Well, I need to go find all of my classes again anyways. Geez... I can't believe I forgot like... everything from orientation already."

As you sat up, your stomach growled, causing you to chuckle. You decided you'd first get some breakfast at the food court before going on your journey. Making a mental note to eventually go visit a grocery store so you would have at least a little food inside your dorm, you started getting ready for the day. You brushed your hair, used the bathroom, brushed your teeth, and finally got dressed. You grabbed your phone and stuffed it in your pocket as you were leaving, making your way to the food court.

Since it was still somewhat early in the morning {around 9:30 AM}, the food court wasn't super busy quite yet. Most of the tables were still empty and some of the restaurants weren't even open yet, but the majority of them had already opened. The ones that were open didn't have long lines like they had the previous day and instead only had a few students. You browsed through the open restaurants before choosing one that seemed to have quite a few breakfast foods, though it was also a busier one. You decided to eat {choose either bacon and eggs, waffles, or pancakes}, and once you'd paid for and received your food you looked for a seat to eat at. You noticed that 'John,' the person in charge of Eagle Hall, was sitting alone and talking to someone on the phone, immediately making you suspicious. You sat nearby so you could discreetly eavesdrop.

"...expensive. Are you sure?" 'John' asked to the person on the other end, and you assumed the pause was whoever he was talking to giving a response. A few seconds later he started to talk again, "It'll be done by seventeen hundred hours sharp tomorrow."

There was silence after that, so you assumed he'd hung up the phone. Although you'd only caught the very end of that call, it did sound kind of suspicious. It could've just been work related, but something about it didn't sit right with you. What was expensive? And why did he have to speak in military time like that? Was it just his habit or was he trying to sound more tough or something?

A loud crash snapped your attention to reality, and you whipped your head in the direction of the distant but loud clatter to see that someone had just dropped a ceramic bowl full of what looked like some kind of soup {it was hard to tell from the distance}. Their back was turned to you so you couldn't see their facial expression, but even from all the way across the room you could feel the dark aura they were giving off from their accident. Most people had already gone back to their business once they saw it was just some stranger dropping their food that made the loud noise, but you continued to watch as they started to tremble and look around the large area as if to see who was watching him. After noticing that some people were still watching him, he bolted out of the area, leaving his mess behind.

"That was weird..." You mumbled to yourself as an employee at one of the restaurants came with a bucket full of cleaning supplies and began cleaning up the mess. You felt bad for the employee since it wasn't even their mess or their fault, but you also felt bad for whoever had spilled their food because they seemed pretty embarrassed over it. It was definitely a really strong reaction to just run away like that, though.

You shrugged off the little incident, going back to enjoying your food. You weren't gonna let some stranger's misfortune ruin your breakfast, after all! As you started to resume your meal, you heard someone clear their throat, and they started to speak to you.